One of my favorite stories from the list is “Say Hello wave Goodbye” by Tony Parson. The story is based on a immigration officer who explains her everyday life as a duana officer. The main character in the story is Jaswinder Smith. She works for an UK airport and has to ask frequent questions to passengers traveling to the UK. If for some reason the questions don’t match she has to make a decision of returning the passenger to their homeland. There’s different characters. Another one is “the woman with the bride dress” this character story is kinda odd since she traveled all the way to the UK from Korea to marry Prince Harry. Of course it wasn’t true but because she believed it and all the questionnaires she answered were correct with no issues Jazz allowed her to enter the country. One of the main actions the character takes is to allow the korean lady enter the country because what if that person had bad intentions and not trying to marry the Prince. Then Jazz would’ve put everyone in danger. Another interest scene was when Jaswinder and Ken, a UKBA officer, were checking a fake passport. This scene was pretty interesting for me since it shows how careful they must be when looking at passports and the details that make the passport fake or real.
Another story that is my favorite is “Assimilation” By E.L. Doctorow this story is based on a woman marrying a man to stay in the United States but fell in love with each other. The story has many characters but one of the main characters is Ramon. Ramon is a dishwasher for a restaurant. The owner had asked Ramon to marry his niece for papers and he would be paid $1000 for it. One scene from the story that was kinda funny was when Ramon first met Jelena in the kitchen and he said this is not what they show me. The picture that Roman saw of Jelena was a blonde smiling girl and there she was smoking in the restaurant and looking completely different from the photo. Ramon ethics are seen throughout the story in one scene Jelena asks him to smack her since she was behaving badly and Ramon didn’t because it was wrong and unnecessary.